Swedish newcomers Year Of The Goat have already raised a lot of attention. After their outstanding debut EP „Lucem Ferre“ from 2011 they released their first full-length album in the coldish, greyish December of 2012 and got many fine reviews – now will 2013 turn out to be the „Year Of The Goat“? Well – [...]weiterlesen →

Kat Candler is an award-winning filmmaker and a film lecturer at the University of Texas. Her films have screened at Sundance, SXSW and Florida Film Festival, to name just a few. Kat did not grow up on a mind-and-music-taste-altering diet of [...]weiterlesen →

Talking to J. Bennett, guitarist of the L.A.-based Ides of Gemini, was a real pleasure. We did the interview shortly after the band had returned from their first European tour. Read what he had to say about the band’s history and their extraordinary music which – like a ghostly apparition from a far distant time [...]weiterlesen →

Spending the summer in Iceland isn’t such a good idea if you’re into beach holidays – but it can pay off very well if you’re constantly looking for interesting bands to feature! During this year’s visit in the land of fire and ice we came across the outstanding four-piece death metal band Angist – Angist is [...]weiterlesen →

If you’ve been following us on a certain social media tool lately you might have recognized that we found another new favourite band: Seremonia hail from Finland, where a lot of strangely inspired, strangely innovative music is being played these days. Their self-titled album was released earlier this month and is already making huge waves. Seremonia’s Ilkka [...]weiterlesen →

Blackholicus – Megaforte Think Iron Maiden. Think Motörhead. Think high speed shredding, twin guitars and crushing riffs. Think dirty DIY punk (with castanets!). Now think Thin Lizzy…and last but not least, think J.S.Bach. Team it up with an album cover depicting a SciFi animal war somewhere out in [...]weiterlesen →

The time has come – finally we’ll be doing reviews here at Empress, just like everybody else does. Wait … not quite like everybody else! Our approach will be a bit different, as we will not only be talking about the latest releases of currently active bands, but also about everything else we like: Old [...]weiterlesen →

Ever dreamed of starting your own record label? Nikolaj Jacobsen from Copenhagen, Denmark, is hardly of the dreaming kind. He simply does what it needs to make his dreams [read: plans] come true. Together with a companion, Nikolaj founded „Raw Birth Records“ in early 2012 and has by now released 3 EPs and Demos and one [...]weiterlesen →

After doing the vastly interesting pre-festival interview with Daniel Abecassis we went off to some very heavy days in the entirely doomed town of Copenhagen. Our expectations had been risen to gargantuan heights, and we were NOT disappointed. Thursday – Day One in Doom Town Doom Town – [...]weiterlesen →

Annick Giroux is one of the most interesting personalities metal has to offer these days. Not only is she the vocalist of Cauchemar, who were one of Fenriz’s bands of the week in 2010, but she is also a world-travelling, fanzine-editing, hellbent-for-cooking workaholic in the name of metal. As we are always interested in what [...]weiterlesen →